Chile didn't even have decent growth until after Pinochet left

Soviet Union was an economic miracle and it's something even the bourgeois at the time acknowledged

With the distance of time it's now important for the bourgeois to place in everyones minds the food queues, food shortages and prostitution of Russia during capitalist restoration and place this blame at the foot of the communists

Listen to the great newspapers. They have a bitter pill to swallow.

Le Temps in its number of January 27th, 1932, says: “The Soviet Union has won the first round by industrializing itself without the aid of foreign capital.” The same paper, some months later, in April, observes: “Communism seems to have leaped in one bound over the constructive stage which in a capitalist regime has to be crossed very slowly. To all intents and purposes, the Bolsheviks have beaten us in this respect.”

The Round Table: “The achievements of the Five-Year Plan constitute a surprising phenomenon.”

The Financial Times: “There can be no doubt about their success. The Communists’ exultation in the Press and in their speeches is by no means without foundation.”

The Neue Freie Presse ( Austria): “The Five-Year Plan is a modern giant.”

The Nation ( United States): “The four years of the Five-Year Plan show a really remarkable series of achievements. The Soviet Union has devoted itself with an intense activity, more appropriate to war-time, to the construction of the foundations of a new life.”

Forward ( Scotland): “What England did during the war was a mere bagatelle beside it. The Americans recognize that even the feverish period of the most intense construction in the Western states could offer nothing comparable to it…a degree of energy unprecedented in the history of the world. A brilliant challenge to a hostile capitalist world.”

Barbusse, Henri. Stalin. New York: The Macmillan company, 1935, p. 215-216